This combination of requiring royalties for blank media and implementing copy protection that often doesn't EVEN allow listening on some CD players is bad enough. Add the fact that most of these music publishing houses are stiffing their artists on royalties and these guys are printing money three different ways.
Say you are a band and you get differing royalty rates for various countries? You get a number one hit in England, right? Go to buy your CD major retailer in the UK, and you'll notice that the CD is printed in, say Austria. Imagine that! It would then be a reasonable guess that the required royalty for Austria is, say, 20 points less.
Not illegal in this case, but shady.
To offer a devil's advocate perspective though?
The rate the RIAA gets for blank media is very low and the cost for that same media is pennies on the dollar gotten for prerecorded content. Thus they lose more on the blank media period.
Monsanto and The PCB's...
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Monsanto and PCBs
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· Score: 5, Interesting
More interesting and relevant from the article is the premise that they were aware as early as the late 1930's that they were doing lasting damage--and worked very hard to keep that from surfacing--since they had a complete monopoly on PCB's period. And production continued until two years before PCB's were banned for good in 1979.
Good corporate citizenship it wasn't. Worse, at the level intimated in the article (if true,) that particular factory and its overseers were committing mass murder. One has to wonder about our corporate law structure on that note.
Are fines and clean-up measures a reasonable response?
4th Gen Is The Charm? --Or--Don't Wimp Go Fer It!
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To HDTV or Not to HDTV?
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· Score: 2, Insightful
At this point there are a bunch of things you need to answer internally before deciding to DTV your world:
1. Are you in a major DTV region? (Or are you stuck in Denver where there is none?)
1a. If not, do you want to pay for 2 WHOLE Channels on DirecTV or 3 on DISH--both in a lowball ATSC standard (540P?)
2. If you are in reach of a major city with fair DTV coverage, do you know anyone who can get the channels (I'm in Southern Orange County...and I get all but one LA station with a couple of Double Bow Tie RS Antennas and an amplifier on a Second Gen Tuner.)
3. Do you give a rat's arse about primetime content or HDNet's Hockey Coverage (Thank-you for carrying a whole second channel part-time, DirecTV...Magnanimous of you.)
4. Can you cope with knowing that in a year and a half the quality of whatever you buy will double and the price will halve--at a minimum.
If you answered yes to most of those or enough to convince your wallet, go second and a half gen now... otherwise wait for the 4th Generation with better res, lower prices, more content, real multipath abbeyence... et al.
PS. NBC has One Whole Primetime Show! Whooohoooo!
This site might help you:
http://pub1.ezboard.com/fdigitaltelevisionhdtvfo ru mhdtvdigitaltelevisionnewsforum.html
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This combination of requiring royalties for blank media and implementing copy protection that often doesn't EVEN allow listening on some CD players is bad enough. Add the fact that most of these music publishing houses are stiffing their artists on royalties and these guys are printing money three different ways.
Say you are a band and you get differing royalty rates for various countries? You get a number one hit in England, right? Go to buy your CD major retailer in the UK, and you'll notice that the CD is printed in, say Austria. Imagine that! It would then be a reasonable guess that the required royalty for Austria is, say, 20 points less.
Not illegal in this case, but shady.
To offer a devil's advocate perspective though?
The rate the RIAA gets for blank media is very low and the cost for that same media is pennies on the dollar gotten for prerecorded content. Thus they lose more on the blank media period.
More interesting and relevant from the article is the premise that they were aware as early as the late 1930's that they were doing lasting damage--and worked very hard to keep that from surfacing--since they had a complete monopoly on PCB's period. And production continued until two years before PCB's were banned for good in 1979.
Good corporate citizenship it wasn't. Worse, at the level intimated in the article (if true,) that particular factory and its overseers were committing mass murder. One has to wonder about our corporate law structure on that note.
Are fines and clean-up measures a reasonable response?
At this point there are a bunch of things you need to answer internally before deciding to DTV your world:o ru mhdtvdigitaltelevisionnewsforum.html
1. Are you in a major DTV region? (Or are you stuck in Denver where there is none?)
1a. If not, do you want to pay for 2 WHOLE Channels on DirecTV or 3 on DISH--both in a lowball ATSC standard (540P?)
2. If you are in reach of a major city with fair DTV coverage, do you know anyone who can get the channels (I'm in Southern Orange County...and I get all but one LA station with a couple of Double Bow Tie RS Antennas and an amplifier on a Second Gen Tuner.)
3. Do you give a rat's arse about primetime content or HDNet's Hockey Coverage (Thank-you for carrying a whole second channel part-time, DirecTV...Magnanimous of you.)
4. Can you cope with knowing that in a year and a half the quality of whatever you buy will double and the price will halve--at a minimum.
If you answered yes to most of those or enough to convince your wallet, go second and a half gen now... otherwise wait for the 4th Generation with better res, lower prices, more content, real multipath abbeyence... et al.
PS. NBC has One Whole Primetime Show! Whooohoooo!
This site might help you:
http://pub1.ezboard.com/fdigitaltelevisionhdtvf